it [God's mercy] chose me suitable company and habitation; it gave me betimes a teachable ingeny

(already the rugbylike form of the game was [developing])

He who reads them will see that Mr. Darwin by no means minces matters with Lyell[…] There may be a certain biplicity of kindness and courtesy in Mr. Darwin ; but there is no duplicity of his essential manhood and truth.

I reacted to my well-to-do peers, with the help of my roommate and best friend John, by sissifying and citifying them.